Long Change by Don Gillmor

Author:Don Gillmor [Gillmor, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-81416-6
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2015-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Ritt left the restaurant, walking through the glum downtown. He stopped and noted the subtle swirls on the sandstone of the Knox United Church. Likely quarried from the Porcupine Hills formation. The distant footprints of an overconfident Triceratops staggering through the last of the Cretaceous, leaving an imprint in the silt and sand that was distributed during the Laramide orogeny. Tectonic plates shuddering, the Rocky Mountains coming to life. Ritt looked closely at the stone. There was the illusion of uniformity but the individual grains actually varied in size and colour. Even stone failed to be monolithic—it was a collection of individuals pressed into a society by forces they didn’t understand. Stone was equated with stability and it was stable, but only compared to other materials. Measured by geologic time, it was fickle and unreliable. There was rock that was easily fatigued and rock that was incompetent. It rose and fell and crumbled.

He thought, melodramatically, The city has turned against me. Though he knew this was simply ego. Who was the city for?

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